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Line 1: {{Short description\|Building in London, England, UK}} {{EngvarB\|date=May 2017}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=May 2017}} Line 8 ⟶ 9: \| full = \| order = \| established = c. {{circa\|666 AD}} \| disestablished = 1539 \| mother = Line 45 ⟶ 46: The ruined remains of Barking Abbey now form part of a public open space known as '''Abbey Green'''.<ref name="AG" /> It is recognisable for its partially restored Grade-II* Listed Curfew Tower,<ref name=":0" /> which features on the [[coat of arms of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham]].<ref name="SM" /> Barking Abbey is also notable because the adjacent [[St Margaret's Church, Barking\|St Margaret's Church]], a [[grade I listed building]] dating back to the 13th century, was built within its grounds. The Abbey Ruins are used as a venue each May for outdoor classical concerts,<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.lbbd.gov.uk/services/barking-abbey-ruins/\|title=Barking Abbey Ruins ~~– London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council~~\|work=London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council\|access-date=2017-10-14\|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/mad-for-barking-7269821.html\|title=Mad for Barking\|work=Evening Standard\|access-date=2017-10-14\|language=en-GB}}</ref> as well as an annual pilgrimage by members of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]].<ref>[https://orthodoxlondon.org/2017/04/23/pan-orthodox-pilgrimage-to-saints-of-barking/ "Pan-Orthodox Pilgrimage to Saints of Barking"] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227153925/https://orthodoxlondon.org/2017/04/23/pan-orthodox-pilgrimage-to-saints-of-barking/ \|date=27 February 2018 }}, 23 April 2017, ''Orthodox London''. Retrieved 27 February 2018.</ref> ==History== ===Early history=== [[File: St Alban's Abbey IMG 2742 (28883447381).jpg\|thumb\|right\|Statue of St Erkenwald, founder]] Barking Abbey was one of two monasteries built in the 7th century by [[Earconwald\|Saint Erkenwald]] (later [[Bishop of London]]). Erkenwald founded [[Chertsey Abbey]] for himself, and Barking Abbey for his sister [[Æthelburh of Barking\|Saint Ethelburga]]. Erkenwald and Ethelburga were of royal ancestry and were born in the Anglo-Saxon [[Kingdom of Lindsey]] (roughly located within the modern county of [[Lincolnshire]]). Line 64 ⟶ 67: Another version of the story says that [[Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar\|Queen Ælfthryth]], as overseer of the abbey, deposed the abbess Wulfida after complaints made by the nuns; and that it was the Queen, not her son, who reinstated her twenty years later.<ref>{{cite book \| title=Matilda of Scotland: a Study in Medieval Queenship \| last=Honeycutt \| first=Lois \| page=37 \| year=2003 \| publisher=The Boydell Press \| location=Woodbridge }}</ref> [[Dunstan\|Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury]]~~, (909 – 19 May 988)~~ changed Barking Abbey to follow the [[Rule of St. Benedict]].~~<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2098673 \|title=Barking Abbey (ruins) \|publisher=Find A Grave \|access-date=25 August 2014}}</ref>~~ According to medieval scholar Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, Barking Abbey may have been "especially devoted to [[Martha]]", the sister of [[Mary of Bethany]] and [[Lazarus of Bethany\|Lazarus]] in the Gospels of [[Gospel of Luke\|Luke]] and [[Gospel of John\|John]].<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Bugyis \|first=Katie Ann-Marie \|title=The Care of Nuns: The Ministries of Benedictine Women in England During the Central Middle Ages \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|year=2019 \|isbn=978-0-19-085128-6 \|location=New York \|pages=167, 169}}</ref> In {{Circa\|1156}}, [[Osbert of Clare]] wrote a letter to Adelzia, who was abbess at the time, requesting that the Barking Abbey nuns pray for him; Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis states that it demonstrates his "confidence in the promptness and solicitude" of their prayers.<ref>Bugyis, p. 265</ref> ===After the Norman Conquest=== Line 132 ⟶ 135: Abbesses of Barking Abbey:<ref name=BH>{{cite book\|title=Houses of Benedictine nuns: Abbey of Barking, A History of the County of Essex: Volume 2\|year=1907\|pages=115–122\|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=39832\|editor=William Page & J. Horace Round}}</ref> {{div col\|colwidth=30em}} * [[Æthelburh of Barking\|St. Ethelburga]], c. {{circa\|666 ~~– c.~~ \|695}}, founder and first abbess of the Abbey * St. Hildelitha ([[Hildelith]]), c. {{circa\|695 ~~– c.~~ \|700}} * St. Wlfhildis ([[Wulfhilda of Barking\|Wulfhilda]]), c. {{circa\|965}}, created abbess by [[Edgar the Peaceful\|King Edgar the Peaceful]], deposed by his wife [[Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar\|Queen Elfrida]] who was jealous as the King was in love with her * Queen Alftrudis. ''([[Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar\|Queen Elfrida]]?)'' * St. Wlfhildis (Wulfhilda), again, died c. {{circa\|990}}. Restored as abbess by [[Æthelred the Unready\|King Æthelred the Unready]] * Ælfgiva, c. {{circa\|1066}} * [[Matilda of Scotland]], wife of [[Henry I of England\|King Henry I]] * Agnes, appointed by [[Henry I of England\|King Henry I]] Line 143 ⟶ 146: * Adeliza, sister of Payn FitzJohn, appointed by [[Stephen, King of England\|King Stephen]] * Mary, sister of [[Thomas Becket]], appointed 1173, created abbess in reparation for the murder of her brother * [[Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony\|Matilda of England]], daughter of [[Henry II of England\|King Henry II]], appointed c. {{circa\|1175}}, occurs 1198 * Christiana de Valoniis, occurs 1202 and 1205 * Sybil, elected 1215 Line 208 ⟶ 211: [[Category:Double monasteries]] [[Category:Grade II* listed monasteries]] [[Category:~~Churches~~Scheduled ~~completed~~monuments in ~~666~~London]] [[Category:666 establishments]] [[Category:Churches completed in the 660s]] [[Category:7th-century church buildings in England]]